My First and Last C-Fandom Ever
When was the last time i wrote something here? Idk. Well, like any other posts of mine, i will make a long post rants about something, this time is about my FIRST AND LAST C-FANDOM. Yap, my first and last. Not only because i really love this man, but because this fandom traumatized me with this whole C-ent.
This story is about me falling into an abys of Zhang Zhehan's fandom, later i will call as Haizhe (Hz) with literall meaning as jellyfish. The story start from Jan or Feb 2021, where i was felt so bored watching jpn or kor dramas, and i found this cdrama, called My Heroic Husband. I like it's story, and i start to watch more colosal cdramas. Fyi, i couldn't watch moderen cdramas, i like historical cdramas more, hehe.
Then one day, i watched this drama called Blooms on Ruyi Pavilion. Typical idol drama, so it kinda cheesy and easily to guess about its plot. But, the main leads (FL and ML) are kinda caught my attention. They are Ju Jingyi (former member of SNH48) and Zhang Zhehan.
Ju Jingyi and Zhang Zhehan
I like their chemistry, and lucky me they has another historical drama together, Legend of Yunxi. Similar plotline, but it's ok i could enjoy it since yeah i like their chemistry. From that, i like watching their BTS on youtube. I never did this since the first time i watched any dramas, even my lifetime favorite drama, Hanakimi.
Okay, since i finished Yunxi, i start to watch my other cdramas. Then, one day, i saw a clip of Zhang Zhehan's new drama, Word of Honor (WOH). At first i didn't know it was him, because the clip was about his character is in disguse as a beggar. He looked so damn ugly, lmao. But after a few days, i found out that that drama is a bromance drama and being uke. I was shocked, because i didn't think that cool manly and badass Zhang Zhehan, thanks to Ruyi and Yunxi i got this image of him, would play a character on bromance! Well, it got me curious about the drama hahaha. So i asked my friend about WOH.
I watched it for some days, and i liked it, a lot, hahahahahaha. I never thought i'd watch another bromance/bl drama since i became sick of my former fandom bl drama. So, i watched it until i didn't realized i started to stan one of their ML, Zhang Zhehan.
Gong Jun and Zhang Zhehan
Since then, i followed so many fan accounts of him, and started to buy lots of his endorsments, i even bought WOH concert to watch him. Yappa, he made me fall in love with him, again. It was a fun moments for a few months, until something happened to him on August 12.
He was framed as a traitor by antis because of a photo of him on cherry blossom season some years ago in Japan. Antis made people in China hate him, even one of non-goverment organisation called CAPA also deplatformed and boycotted him start from August 13, that's why we called it as 813 incident.
The whole fandom was in chaos back then. Lots of Hz and CPF of JunZhe (Gong Jun and Zhehan) cried a river, many of us even tried to make a clarification that he DID NOT enter the shrine, like what antis and paid water armys said. But guess what, we got muted and been attacked. Sigh.
For months, we can only hope that he will come back asap. Lots of people on the fandom even started to downloading his past works, because we affraid his works would be taken down, and yes some of his works got cut, even his appearance got blurred like some dick-cencorship on mangas. Another sigh.
A week after 813, i cried so fucking hard when i realized that i couldn't see him in the near future. I cried while i listened to him sang a song dedicated to all the filmmaker in his country.
Then, after a while, Hz and CPF started to made some assumptions about his incident, because fuck that was too perfect, like someone has already plotted this things. Lots of 'what if's came out from our cirlce. We tried to investigated about who the one behind all of this bullshit, sadly we got nothing :(
Until one day, after CAPA gave out a list of probelmatic artists and it contained Zhehan on it, someone with a powerfull backing irl, uncle Li, asked them what their reasons to put Zhehan's name on the list. At first uncle only curious, but because CAPA and Weibo played dirty, they erased the uncle's post, and that made uncle mad. So, from that day, uncle tried to find out what was happened with Zhehan and C-ent.
Up until now uncle still trying to clear Zhehan's name. I really gratefull with all uncle did to Zhehan, that also opened peoples' eyes about this matter. Uncle told us that this wasn't only about a fandom related but also about humanity, about how dirty someone with power and mony could destroy someone's life.
Uncle alse released a letter from Zhehan's Mom, on the letter she said how miserable Zhehan's life after the incident. Zhehan didn't dare to go out, their family was called as Jpn's spy, lots of flower funeral bucket was sent to their home and store, even Zhehan's nephew also didn't want to meet him and calling him as a bad guy because of the slander! Image a little kid could say something like that! I cried again when i read that letter. It teared me up, and felt back to 813. Sigh.
Thankfully after uncle start to clear Zhehan's name, good things started to come, and i start to think that maybe Zhehan will comeback with lots of people support him. I want to be there if that day comes. I want to stay with him, Hz, and CPF. Maybe it sounds cheesy but i love him so much it hurts when people badmouthing him for something he didn't do. :(
Uncle Li, thank you for fight all this unfairness.
Zhehan, thank you for being strong.
Hz and CPF, thank you for being there to support each other.
Like Zhehan always say to us, we need to be strong. We need to be strong for him, for us, and we will cheer him when he comeback to shine even more :D
Zhehan on concert day. He looks so happy back then
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